"Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis."

“Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.”

“Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.”

“I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04”, p.69, Granta Books

“When you're worrying you're not praying. Stop worrying start praying.”

“I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.”

Source : "Clare Balding: 'You can't be flavour of the month for more than a month'". Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.

“The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.”

“It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.”